“When Apple recently booked the cellar dining room at Pranna for a talk with 50 top executives from The New York Times, even restaurant higher-ups didn’t know who their VIP guest would be,” Daniel Maurer reports for New York Magazine.
“But last night [Wednesday, Feb. 3],” Mauer reports, “Jobs came strolling in wearing what our source calls ‘a very funny hat — a big top hat kind of thing.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, Willie Wonka hat!
BTW, one of the issues that The New York Times might be having is that they have 50 FARGIN’ “TOP” EXECUTIVES! Sheesh.
Maurer continues, “Our source says Jobs, who sat at the head of the ‘intimate, family-style gathering’ with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, demonstrated the iPad and its functions, and spoke about how it could serve the future of media.”
“As we’ve reported before, Times executives are wary of forging an exclusive contract with the Apple tablet, though they are moving forward with finding ways to charge for online usage,” Maurer reports.
Read more in the full article here.
Why doesn’t Apple just BUY the friggin’ NYT, LA Times, WaPo and Chicago Tribune. Shut down the presses, keep the cream of the reporting/editorial staff and put it online?
As broke as old media is today, it would be cheaper to buy the staff you need than to mess around with these dinosaur execs who obviously don’t know that the paradigm has shifted and they are on the outs.
Great photoshop job!
I’m looking for my golden ticket, Steve.
Fargin’ iceholes!
50 top executives: hey, it’s a liberal rag. 1 exec to write the editorials, 49 to turn the mimeograph.
Who cares? Only Rahm’s retards read that rag.
The New York Times Company publishes more than just “The New York Times” newspaper
http://www.nytco.com/company/business_units/index.html
FOX News morons… ’nuff said.
Those people you like, I don’t like. I don’t listen to them and no idea what they say because I don’t like them, so I don’t listen to them. But I say things against them. But I don’t listen. I don’t like them, though…
… those people.
I don’t like them, so I don’t know what they say because I don’t listen to them. Those people. You know… them.
The New York Times, liberal? HAH! That’s ripe. The NYT is on the right side of the middle of the road.
Some of you need to get out of those inbred backwaters.
In case y’all didn’t know, not everyone’s mom is also their sister.
And what about teeth?
@Mr Reeee
I agree, totally.
The ignoramuses bashing the Gray Lady have no idea who they are talking about. The NYTs has been in Sulzberger’s family for more than a hundred years.
The NYTs Company publishes 18 newspapers! Is it any wonder they can scrape up 50 execs?
They also run one of the largest news websites on the planet and a recent survey stated the NYTs had 18-million unique visitors in a single month.
They have earned 101 Pulitzer’s, more than any news organization. Why not? They have more than 350 staff writers!
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By comparison, the NY Post, Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper, which was established by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, has a half-million daily subscribers.
The Post has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch’s ownership for what many consider its lurid headlines, sensationalism, blatant advocacy and conservative bias.
In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review asserted that “the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem – a force for evil.”
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Give me the Times, any day!
NYT is worth reading just for David Pogue’s excellent tech writing. (Okay, Pogue, where’s my free “iPad: The Missing Manual”?)
“It is fair to rag on the newspaper industry. However there are some inane comments from some who obviously don’t read newspapers, read in general.
@roobler
I have a feeling you wouldn’t know an honest leftist to see one. Try reading a newspaper and gaining some knowledge.”
I’m reading a newspaper as right now; I’m reading the NYT. I’m also a bleeding heart liberal, much like our man Steve Jobs and our saviour Bob Dylan. Also, check your grammar dicksmack — what’re ya, 14?
NYT=BFD
Ben Dover: Nobody wants to admit Jobs is a liberal.
Jobs has never made a secret of that, he just usually doesn’t publically engage in political debates. That still just puts him somewhere middle-of-the-road relative to the rest of the world.
Ben Dover: How many Al Gore level of well known conservatives on the board?
How many “conservatives” from the rabid right even exist who could match Gore’s stature?
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Dick Cheney?
Why Steve is obsessed with that rabid left wing rag??? Ahh, he spends too much time on the Left Coast.
Starting to get booooooring!
Lets just hope it was more Willie Wonka than mad hatter
Only a retard admits they’re a bleeding heart liberal. Now, put your NYT down and go work for your money like the grown ups do.
@ Why Not? – Why doesn’t Apple just BUY the friggin’ NYT, LA Times, WaPo and Chicago Tribune.
For the same reason Apple doesn’t just buy Sony, Warner Music Group, etc. – Apple can provide the technology and products which best connect consumers with content. They’re not hitching their wagon to any one specific content provider company, which is a far healthier thing to do in the long run.
Oh, and just to mess with the folks above making off-topic comments: “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” – Winston Churchill
Sorry, the NYT no longer reports. They write opinion pieces and tell the sheep (readers) what is and is not important according to their rules.
They are trash. Not worthy of wrapping fish with it.
After reading these comments, I’m curious to know what MDN readers think IS a reputable news source, whether traditional print media, broadcast, or online.
@@roobler
ouch! harsh. I think I’m bleeding… oh, it’s just my pesky liberal bleeding heart.
Anything that will coax the NY Times to allow sales of an ELECTRONIC version of their paper is fine with me. I can’t believe these guys are still trying to sell tree media to Internet users. HELLO IN THERE! WAKE UP!
Seriously, I would like to give the NY Times money for their niffy news services. But I will NOT buy paper. Will Steve Jobs give them the clue? Let’s watch…